The special plate that holds symbolic foods during the Seder is called the Seder plate.
In Hebrew, it is often called a ke'ara. It displays foods that help tell the story of the Israelites’ slavery, liberation, and Exodus from Egypt. The traditional arrangement commonly includes maror and chazeret, bitter herbs; charoset, a sweet mixture; karpas, a vegetable; zeroa, a roasted bone; and beitza, an egg.
A common mix-up is treating every symbolic food on the table as part of the plate. The three matzot are central to the Seder but are normally placed separately, and salt water or vinegar may sit beside the plate or be included differently according to community custom. Sephardi, Ashkenazi, Mizrahi, and other traditions can therefore arrange or interpret items in distinct ways.
The Seder plate is not merely decorative. Its foods are prompts for ritual actions and questions, helping transform the meal into a structured retelling of the Exodus.